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Hi and I would like to know what the best free audio mixing software I would like it to be professional but it doesn’t have to be if you guys know of anything please tell me thanks

NOT including Audacity

this is the method i HAVE to use…

i take the Wii’s audio cables and put them in a slitter then put the slitter in my PC Mic slot. what is the best audio recording software (quality wise) for this method?

We all know that there are a lot of different choices you can choose from when it comes to music production software. In fact, you can get some very professional versions that can cost over $1,000!

Most of us could never afford something so expensive, and we probably wouldn’t even know how to work it. And yet, no one wants to get stuck with some cheap music production software that barely works at all.

A while ago, I came across something that’s quite new. I have to admit, I thought it looked a bit sketchy at first, but I decided to give it a try because I had read some great reviews on the product. This software uses an amazing cutting edge music sequencer, which allows you to export to MP3 formatting.

The great thing about this software is that it includes music production tutorials, so you don’t have to learn everything yourself.  The tutorials include different keyboards, studios and strategies on how you can make the best music.

This software provides the most efficient tools for music production, and unlike other complicated systems, this one is actually really easy, intuitive, and fun to use. I play the piano, and I have a Yahama keyboard, which I have been able to sync up with this music production software. I can actually make my own piano music and then add certain percussion beats and other background sounds to make it sound even better! I just love it.

This can definitely benefit anyone who is a piano player and has a piano keyboard with a MIDI input/output.  Even if you’re not a piano player, you can STILL make high quality, amazing music. There are thousands of sounds to choose from, and once you’re finished making a song, you can easily convert it to MP3 format and make a CD or drop it right onto your iPod or other MP3 player.

Even though this music software is easy to just start using right away, it includes a lot of great instructional tutorials to show you how to make the most of your music production, teaching you some awesome tips and tricks about producing music, and guiding you through the whole process. You can even use the software to actually help you learn how to play the piano and other instruments. This is all offered through their unique members’ area training center.

So, what am I talking about? Click here to find out, and don’t be put off by the dark website graphics! This is actually a really great product, it helped me create better piano music and it can definitely help you too!

I am building a home studio and I want to know what would the best software for recording music would be. Price is not as important as quality for me. I know of Pro Tools already and would like other suggestions.

I have this new company i started, dealing with mixing and mastering audio for musicians. I want to know the best place i can go to advertise this kind of company online.

If you want, i can give you my company’s website.

Crutchfield audio comes with a wide array of options to choose from and you can find car speakers, car video, car stereos and components, satellite radios, car subwoofers, car amplifiers and others. Car stereos and components include car receivers, accessories and car stereo installation. Car receivers are CDs, DVDs and cassette receivers. Car videos also come in categories which are in dash receivers, universal screens and video installations. You can get prepaid satellite radio service cards and many other satellite radio options. You can also get a variety of speakers including component speaker systems and many others. At Crutchfield audio, you will find subwoofers of your choice and liking. They can be component subwoofers or enclosed subwoofers.

All other accessories can be found in the stores. The other category of audio that they have are the marine audio products. You can find marine stereos, marine speakers, marine subwoofers, marine amplifiers, marine accessories and remote controls. Marine receivers are highly expandable and built to withstand elements like spray, sun and salt. You will find a selection of marine CD players. Marine speakers and tower systems go a long way in providing realistic sounds that you will enjoy. Amplifiers are also designed to withstand waves and are durable. Crutchfield audio has in stock such equipment that will transform your boating experience. Some come with gold plated connectors and you can enjoy a one year warranty.

You can get cutting edge subwoofers which you can view on the Crutchfield web site. They have increased rigidity, and no enclosure is needed. Other marine accessories are categorized. They include marine remotes, marine covers and mounts, marine satellite radio, marine patch cables, marine power and speaker wire. The details of all these accessories will be clearly explained to you and even if you have no idea about their functions you can read on them. There are also tuners and changers available which include universal add on changers, HD radio add on tuners. If you are looking for iPod/MP3 car adapters, the categories are many and you can choose from universal FM and cassette adapters and others. In the same category, you will find mounts and cables and iPod/MP3 player installations.

There is so much to read and see when it comes to Crutchfield audio. They have various varieties of brands and they are authorized to trade. Consider the price of the audio you want to buy then compare prices. The company has very affordable products that you can select from. Read on the warranties of the different products also read the terms and conditions of the company. Sometimes, they offer free shipping of products so you have to read on what kind of shipping they offer. It is encouraging reading through the many positive reviews about the company and the products they offer. It brings confidence to know that you are going to a store to get value for money. If you need to acquire some audio products, go through the audio items they offer and you will be happy you did so.

Choosing the best video editing software can seem a daunting task given the wide range of products available at the moment. However with a little help to remain focused on what is important you should be able to make a good choice.

One of the key points to keep in mind is, “What is it that I am I REALLY going to do with the video editing software that I choose?” The answer to that question has to remain uppermost in your mind when selecting the best video editing software for you.

All of the major home video editing software companies offer camcorder to DVD video editing solutions that make them almost inseparable from each other. So concentrate on what you REALLY need.

The first thing to establish is what is the format of the material you will be working with and what will be the formats that you will want to produce in the end. Input will be determined by your camcorder or your DVD recorder or whatever the source of your material is. Take note of the format your device records in and make sure that one is covered first.

Then realistically take a look at how you would most likely distribute your final videos. DVD? Blu-Ray? Uploading to YouTube or similar? Make sure the software you choose can output to the format you want.

So, your first task in deciding on what video editing software is suitable for you is to work out what your most common source video files will be and what your most common video output will be. That represents the core of what you will be using the software for and should be your main focus.

Like any other competitive market, video editing software is caught up in a never ending race to keep up with technology as it develops and still make the product seem “sexy” to the customer. The point is you probably don’t WANT to buy video editing software. What you WANT is a finished video production.

The problem for the software company is that they know you NEED to buy video editing software but that is not what you WANT! They have to make you WANT it! And because of that we get “bells and whistles” features that make you WANT IT but most likely will never need.

Video Transitions:
Transitions are the little inserts that go in between two clips to make the scene change. If you look at a movie you will notice when the scene changes it either cuts to the next scene with no transition, this is called cut or a straight cut. It fades to black then fades into the next scene from black called a cross fade through black. Or, finally, the two scenes merge into each other softly and this one is called a cross fade. There you have it, pretty well the entire gamut of transitions that professional video editors use!

All video editing software programs offer at least 50 transitions each. Newbies use ALL the available transitions because they look cool the first time they see them. The reality is NOBODY ever, ever wants to go back to their house again to look at their latest production because their heads are still spinning from the last one! Ignore transitions as a deciding factor, all video editing software programs have them and they all have more than you need.

Video Overlay:
An overlay track, simply put, is the ability to put one video in the background and have another visible on top of it. It is that “picture in picture” effect you have seen on TV and in movies. You can also put subtitles in an overlay track or still photos or a bunch of other things to really get creative. You need about five for good control but you would never use more than that otherwise, once again, no-one is going to want to watch the mess you have created!

Audio:
There is no video editing software at the consumer level that offers truly excellent audio control and features. They are video editing programs not audio editing programs. Some have pretty good control, some don’t, if you are going to demand pro level audio then you need dedicated software for that.

The ability to handle Dolby 2 channel is a bare minimum and 5:1 Surround should be standard. The program should offer two audio tracks to play with in addition to the sound in the video track. That leaves you plenty of room for music, narration or effects.

Smart Render:
Rendering is the term used when the video editing software is making the final file of your newly created video. Up until rendering, in any consumer level video editing software, all the cuts, additions, changes and adjustments you have been making are “virtual.” The original footage is never touched. So rendering puts all that together and produces your final video file in the format you have chosen as the viewing format.

Any of the highly compressed formats such as MPEG2 (for DVDs), MPEG4 etc invariably suffer from loss of quality when they are re-rendered. The degree of loss of quality varies but it is essential that any video editing software you choose has the ability to recognise those files it does not need to re-render and simply copy those sections resulting in the high quality possible being retained. It should also offer good control over the properties of the final video.

So there you have it, stay focused on what is important and keep the “gee whiz” stuff to a minimum and you will do fine!

There are thousands of free programs available on the internet.  The list below is not a complete directory, rather it is a list of FREE programs that are highly useful and well written.  As a rule, the less programs you have installed, the better your machine will run.  However the FREE software listed, with few exceptions, are small and lightweight meaning they do not heavily weigh-down your CPU or processor.

Crap Cleaner

CCleaner or Crap Cleaner is an extremely fast hard drive cleaner.   Have you ever used UNDO?  Of course you have, most any program periodically saves temp versions of the document you’re working on so that you can go back if you mess up.  Those versions stay on your hard drive in Temp folders.  Also, any website you visit downloads images, scripts all kinds of…well, crap on your hard drive.  Use CCleaner regularly to free up hard drive space and keep things running clean. CCleaner also has a registry cleaner and program uninstaller.  It’s a favorite amongst professional graphic artists and video editors.

Spybot Search and Destroy

Spybot SD, still one of the best anti-spyware, malware and adware programs, and still free.  Spybot’s advanced features include Immunizing your computer from known threat sites, control of your system start-up and running processes and control of your hosts file.

Ad-Aware – by Lavasoft

No one program can defeat spyware, malware or adware alone.  Lavasoft’s Ad-Aware is the perfect compliment to Spybot Search and Destroy.   What one misses the other catches.

PC Inspector – File Recovery, Smart Recovery

As mentioned in an earlier post, files are not actually deleted from your computer, they’re moved to a different location and written over.  PC Inspector’s File Recovery and Smart Recovery can recover accidentally deleted files. Has the Smart Card in your camera mistakenly been re-formatted?  If so, Smart Recovery can recover your pictures and data files. It’s an amazing FREE program.

Amp Font Viewer

Ever want a seperate graphical representation to see what your fonts look like?  Amp Font Viewer does that and more.  Fonts are fun, but can also severely slow down your system if you have too many.  With Amp Font Viewer, you can temporarily install the font for the application you’re working on, then delete it.  It’s cool.

Irfanview – Image Editor/Viewer

Ever want to “Photoshop” an image, but can’t afford Photoshop?  Irfanview is an excellent alternative.

Audacity – Audio Editor

Want to record your voice or convert your old cassette tapes to MP3’s?  Audacity is a multi-featured audio recorder and editor.  It supports multiple formats and has the ability to change speed and pitch, mix sounds together add effects and more.

Open Office Productivity Suite

If you can’t afford Microsoft Office, but want to create files that are compatible with MS Office, there is no better tool than Open Office.  Unbelievably, OpenOffice (OO) offers Word Processor (Writer) , Spreadsheet (Calc)  and Powerpoint-like (Impress) programs all for FREE.

Days are gone when musicians go to the recording studio, Spent a lot of money and as a whole record their music. Previously it was an expensive affair and now if you compare between the two it is always a better option and the results are almost the same. Beat makers now produce their musical beats online. They can choose from a wide variety of software to create hip hop or rap instrumental beats to lay over their lyrics.

 Nowadays with improvisation in technology, beat maker software comes with inbuilt features to produce high quality music and sound beats at home. They have numerous options related to instruments, musical beats, effects of sound along with thousands of samples to choose from. Artists can create absolute professional and good quality musical pieces with this beat maker software.

  One needs to have either a laptop or computer along with high quality speakers to begin with. One can buy the beat maker through online at an affordable rate or can down load freeware available on internet. But if you spend a little more you can produce your own original music and most professional beats. There are also video tutorials provided along with the package for those who are novice in the field of music.

  Before you begin with your beat maker software, you can make out sample of the notes of that particular song which you like or want to create. Now copy those specific lines and can add other components such as keyboard lines to mix them. Cringle both the lines and add on extra elements from other songs till you get the perfect fusion of the beats.

  If you are making your own beats, you can be a master of your craftsmanship by practicing with beat maker software, as practice makes a man perfect. Beat making software is worth buying and owning one is the best way to improve one’s skills, creativity and talent. Undoubtedly the software will help to gain information and knowledge on best beat making methods and latest styles of beats.

 Want to produce high quality music and sound beats at home? Beat Maker Software is the ultimate way. More info now on http://www.beatmakersoftware.net

I got tired and frustrated with dealing with producers that were charging me a lot of money for one track, so I decided to make my own beats and download beat making software. I wasnâ??t sure how exactly I was going to accomplish this, but I was determined to get it done.

To keep my motivation and adrenaline going, I would think of all the advantages of making my own beats. For one, I wouldn’t have to pay a producer anymore. I would not have to give up any royalties which is a HUGE benefit, which means that is more money in my pocket. And if I get a cool microphone, I wouldn’t even have to go to the studio and pay money to record the song!

So are you wondering how I did it? Well, I had to learn some hard lessons in the process, but fortunately for you, you can skip to the easy part.  At first, I started to learn how to make my own beats using studio equipment. I had a mentor and started to take one on one lessons. I didn’t really get anywhere using that route because I didn’t have the equipment at my house to practice. So each week was literally my only practice time. Needless to say, that I didn’t learn much with the studio equipment.

After almost giving up, I saw an ad online that you could download beat making software and create your own music beats online! Well, I thought there was some type of catch or that the software would probably be too complex. Nevertheless, I attempted to try one and to my surprise it was actually very easy to use and even included video tutorials.

The video tutorials helped me out a lot because I learn better watching someone teach me something as opposed to reading a boring manual. I am so happy I decided to download beat making software and learned how to make my own beats. I am saving so much more money, having less headaches, and having so much more fun.